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The substitute teacher killed in Monday’s school shooting in Nashville was revealed to be “best friends” with Tennessee’s first lady Maria Lee — and the two even had plans to dine together that night.
Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday shared the connection between his wife, a fellow educator, and Cynthia Peak, the 61-year-old who was among six people gunned down by a crazed shooter inside The Covenant School.
“Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends, Cindy Peak,” the governor said in a video posted to Twitter. “Cindy was supposed to come over to have dinner with Maria last night after she filled in as a substitute teacher yesterday at Covenant.”
The first lady was also close friends with another victim, the Christian academy’s headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60.
“Cindy and Maria and Katherine Koonce were all teachers at the same school and had been family friends for decades,” Lee said.
